> Greylisting mail is completely pointless, due to all of the methods 
> having been published in great detail.

I'm not sure that reasoning holds. Rejecting all email from senders
which haven't sent anything before with a "service unavailable, try
again in X minutes" is, theoretical anyway, covered by the mail
transport protocol. Obviously this won't get rid of spammers who in fact
do try again in X minutes, but it does get rid of rubbish from worms etc
which lack more sophisticated retry mechanisms. It also gets rid of the
vast majority of spammers who don't bother to retry. I'd expect that to
change though as soon as it's making a noticable dent into the spammers'
success. Still more time for the filters to catch up...

Volker

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